Example sentences of "[not/n't] for a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 2 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 3 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 4 | This was a town for relaxation , for pleasure , not for a working girl like Tess . |
| 5 | He was looking not for a new policy for Britain , but for a political protege for himself , someone who would be more gracious and romantic than Chamberlain . |
| 6 | Perhaps not for a seasoned traveller like Byron , but for most people there are still thousands of miles to cover and hundreds of countries to explore . |
| 7 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |
| 8 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 9 | ‘ But they say he must n't go home and live on his own , not for a long while at any rate . ’ |
| 10 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 11 | Were it not for a severe epidemic of puerperal fever ( ‘ childbed fever ’ ) in Aberdeen , which lasted from December 1789 to March 1792 , Gordon might well have been forgotten . |